Characterization of a Bacillus subtilis sporulation operon that includes genes for an RNA polymerase sigma factor and for a putative DD-carboxypeptidase.

abstract：:Rebers, P. A. (Rutgers, The State University, New Brunswick, N. J.), E. Hurwitz, M. Heidelberger, and S. Estrada-Parra. Immunochemistry of the pneumococcal types II, V, and VI. III. Tests with derivatives of the specific polysaccharides of types II and VI. J. Bacteriol. 83:335-342. 1962.-The type-specific pneumococcal...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： REBERS PA,HURWITZ E,HEIDELBERGER M,ESTRADA-PARRA S

更新日期：1962-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Defective phage lambdadg, when present in certain Salmonella typhosa hybrids, could be eliminated with acridine orange or ethidium bromide treatment. The lambdadg deoxyribonucleic acid could be separated from the S. typhosa host deoxyribonucleic acid as a distinctly covalently closed molecule. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Falkow S,Baron LS

更新日期：1970-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis has a clonal population structure, and the Latin American-Mediterranean (LAM) family is one of the largest and most widespread within this species, showing evidence for remarkable pathobiology and a confusing phylogeny. Here, we applied robust phylogenetic markers to study the evolution of t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mokrousov I,Vyazovaya A,Narvskaya O

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus agalactiae is a primary cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality. Essential to the virulence of this pathogen is the production of a type-specific capsular polysaccharide (CPS) that enables the bacteria to evade host immune defenses. The identification, cloning, sequencing, and functional characterizati...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Chaffin DO,Beres SB,Yim HH,Rubens CE

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies with methionineless strains of Escherichia coli WWU and Bacillus megaterium KM have shown that selenomethionine only partially satisfies their methionine requirement. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wu M,Wachsman JT

更新日期：1970-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The R-factor R1 is present in a low number of copies per genome (near unity, so-called stringent control of replication). The replication of R1 was studied in a density-shift experiment. One generation after the shift about 20% of the R1 copies had not replicated, whereas about 20% had replicated at least twice. The r...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gustafsson P,Nordström K

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hpaB gene encoding an aromatic hydroxylase of Escherichia coli ATCC 11105, a penicillin G acylase-producing strain, has been cloned and expressed in E. coli K-12. This gene was located near the pacA gene coding for penicillin G acylase. The hydroxylase has a molecular mass of 59,000 Da, uses NADH as a cosubstrate,...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Prieto MA,Perez-Aranda A,Garcia JL

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The marine bacterium and human pathogen Vibrio parahaemolyticus rapidly colonizes surfaces by using swarming motility and forming robust biofilms. Entering one of the two colonization programs, swarming motility or sessility, involves differential regulation of many genes, resulting in a dramatic shift in physiology a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kimbrough JH,Cribbs JT,McCarter LL

更新日期：2020-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We have constructed a promoter-probe expression vector for Bacillus subtilis. This plasmid, pCED6, can be used to fuse various DNA sequences to the structural gene of Escherichia coli beta-galactosidase, permitting analysis of the promoter activity of such sequences. pCED6 replicates and confers drug resistances in bo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Donnelly CE,Sonenshein AL

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With a DNA fragment from within the region encoding the transport functions for K1 production as a hybridization probe in Southern blot experiments, homologous DNA sequences were detected in the DNA from Escherichia coli strains producing K5, K7, K92, and K100 capsular polysaccharides. No homology with the laboratory ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Roberts I,Mountford R,High N,Bitter-Suermann D,Jann K,Timmis K,Boulnois G

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A completely stable F32 merodiploid has been isolated, which has the dsd genotype dsdA(+)dsdCx3 /F -dsdA(+)dsdC(+). The stabilization apparently does not result from an alteration in the F, or from its integration in the chromosome, but rather from a chromosomal aberration. The stable strain can exist in two forms, wh...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： McFall E

更新日期：1967-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maleylacetate reductase (EC 1.3.1.32) plays a major role in the degradation of chloroaromatic compounds by channelling maleylacetate and some chlorinated derivatives into the 3-oxoadipate pathway. Several substituted maleylacetates were prepared in situ by alkaline or enzymatic hydrolysis of dienelactones as the precu...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kaschabek SR,Reineke W

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis of cytosine deaminase in Salmonella typhimurium is repressed by pyrimidines. This repression is mediated by both a uridine and a cytidine compound, indicating a distinct difference in the regulation of synthesis of cytosine deaminase from the regulation of the de novo pyrimidine pathway enzymes. A salvag...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： West TP,O'Donovan GA

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed 12 individual codons, which differed widely with respect to the frequency of use in Escherichia coli and the abundance of the corresponding tRNAs, for their influence on the coupling between transcription and translation. This was probed by determining the effects of codon substitutions in the leader pepti...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bonekamp F,Dalbøge H,Christensen T,Jensen KF

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antibiotic albomycin is highly effective against Streptococcus pneumoniae, with an MIC of 10 ng/ml. The reason for the high efficacy was studied by measuring the uptake of albomycin into S. pneumoniae. Albomycin was transported via the system that transports the ferric hydroxamates ferrichrome and ferrioxamine B. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pramanik A,Braun V

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Saccharomyces cerevisiae mating hormone a-factor has been difficult to isolate reproducibly in sufficient yields by methods using ion-exchange chromatography, probably because of its pronounced hydrophobicity. In this work, a hydrophobic adsorbent (Amberlite XAD-2), in an insoluble bead from, was used to isolate l...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Strazdis JR,MacKay VL

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was made to determine whether factors other than the availability of phosphorus were involved in the regulation of synthesis of teichoic and teichuronic acids in Bacillus subtilis subsp. niger WM. First, the nature of the carbon source was varied while the dilution rate was maintained at about 0.3 h-1. Irrespe...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kruyssen FJ,de Boer WR,Wouters JT

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of the positively charged human protein secretory leukocyte protease inhibitor (SLPI) in Escherichia coli causes severe cellular toxicity. After induction of SLPI synthesis in a high-level-expression strain, SGE61, the growth of the strain is arrested and total protein and RNA synthesis rates decline by...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Miller KW,Evans RJ,Eisenberg SP,Thompson RC

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific growth rates as low as 0.005 hr(-1) (generation times of 20 to 200 hr) of aquatic bacteria in natural waters have been calculated from significant differences between dilution rates and washout rates in a chemostat. The measured growth rates were affected by the treatment of the water samples (type of sterili...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jannasch HW

更新日期：1969-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium avium-Mycobacterium intracellulare complex (MAC) is the most common isolate of nontuberculous mycobacteria and causes pulmonary and extrapulmonary diseases. MAC species can be grouped into 31 serotypes by the epitopic oligosaccharide structure of the species-specific glycopeptidolipid (GPL) antigen. The ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Fujiwara N,Nakata N,Naka T,Yano I,Doe M,Chatterjee D,McNeil M,Brennan PJ,Kobayashi K,Makino M,Matsumoto S,Ogura H,Maeda S

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The function of AI-2 in many bacteria and the physiological role of LuxS, the enzyme responsible for its production, remain matters of debate. Here, we show that in Staphylococcus aureus the luxS gene forms a monocistronic transcriptional unit under the control of a sigma(70)-dependent promoter. The gene was transcrib...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Doherty N,Holden MT,Qazi SN,Williams P,Winzer K

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fec region of the Escherichia coli chromosome determines a citrate-dependent iron(III) transport system. The nucleotide sequence of fec revealed five genes, fecABCDE, which are transcribed from fecA to fecE. The fecA gene encodes a previously described outer membrane receptor protein. The fecB gene product is form...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Staudenmaier H,Van Hove B,Yaraghi Z,Braun V

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial lipoproteins represent a subset of membrane-associated proteins that are covalently modified with lipids at the N-terminal cysteine. The final step of lipoprotein modification, N-acylation of apolipoproteins, is mediated by apolipoprotein N-acyltransferase (Lnt). Examinations with reconstituted proteoliposom...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Narita S,Tokuda H

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNase D is a 3'-exoribonuclease whose in vitro specificity has suggested that it is involved in the processing of tRNA precursors. Its in vivo role has remained unclear, however, because mutant cells devoid of the enzyme display no defect in growth or tRNA processing. To learn more about the structure and function of ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zhang JR,Deutscher MP

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ToxR protein of Vibrio cholerae is an integral membrane protein that coordinately regulates the expression of virulence genes required for successful infection. ToxR has been shown to bind directly to and activate transcription of the cholera toxin (ctx) promoter. Within the amino-terminal cytoplasmic region of To...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ottemann KM,DiRita VJ,Mekalanos JJ

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus was shown to transport iron complexed to a variety of hydroxamate type siderophores, including ferrichrome, aerobactin, and desferrioxamine. An S. aureus mutant defective in the ability to transport ferric hydroxamate complexes was isolated from a Tn917-LTV1 transposon insertion library after sel...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sebulsky MT,Hohnstein D,Hunter MD,Heinrichs DE

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low-copy-number plasmids generally encode a partitioning system to ensure proper segregation after replication. Little is known about partitioning of linear plasmids in Streptomyces. SLP2 is a 50-kb low-copy-number linear plasmid in Streptomyces lividans, which contains a typical parAB partitioning operon. In S. livid...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hsu CC,Chen CW

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria form communities, termed biofilms, in which cells adhere to each other within a matrix, typically comprised of polysaccharides, proteins, and extracellular DNA. Biofilm formation by the marine bacterium Vibrio fischeri requires the Syp polysaccharide, but the involvement of matrix proteins is as yet unknown. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ray VA,Driks A,Visick KL

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methyl coenzyme M methylreductase from acetate-grown Methanosarcina thermophila TM-1 was purified 16-fold from a cell extract to apparent homogeneity as determined by native polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Ninety-four percent of the methylreductase activity was recovered in the soluble fraction of cell extracts. T...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jablonski PE,Ferry JG

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In anaerobic cultures of Mucor rouxii, morphogenesis was strongly dependent on hexose concentration as well as pCO(2). At low levels of hexose or CO(2), or both, hyphal development occurred; at high levels, the fungus developed as yeast cells. Other dimorphic strains of Mucor responded similarly to hexose and CO(2) bu...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bartnicki-Garcia S

更新日期：1968-11-01 00:00:00